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What's Happening — Jan. 13, 2025
If you have an event you would like to have included, please email the information to Daily News Community Editor Max Milne at max.milne@hearst.com. Monday, Jan. 13 Join Greater Midland for a Senior ...
What’s happening around New Mexico January 10-16
Check out community events around New Mexico from-16. Albuquerque New Mexico Albuquerque Notices 🔶 Explora, Sandia Labs ...
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17 ways to enjoy a culture-filled January – without spending any money
It’s easy to succumb to the bleakness, to hunker down and hibernate, to wallow and worry our way through as we try to recoup ...
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What Magnus Carlsen’s Jeans Have to Do with Chess
The fuss around the grand master’s wearing of denim pants to a tournament is a reflection of tensions within the game.
Browns Execute Next Move vs. City of Cleveland in Proposed Move to Brook Park
As the back-and-forth stadium negotiation goes on between the Browns organization and the City of Cleveland, the team has ...
Wemby fits in one last game in NYC — taking on patrons in chess at Washington Square Park
NEW YORK — By 11:30 a.m. Saturday, the mass of people cleared the southwest corner of Washington Square Park in downtown Manhattan. So had the 7-foot-3 NBA unicorn. The chess tables remained, empty ...
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Magnus Carlsen quits World Rapid and Blitz Championships after refusing to change out of jeans
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen quit the World Rapid Chess Championship on Friday after he refused to change out of the jeans he was wearing, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE ...
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NBA’s Victor Wembanyama Asks Fans to Meet in Manhattan to Play Chess
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama invited fans out to New York’s Washington Square Park to play chess on Saturday, despite the dismal rainy weather. “Who wants to meet me at the SW ...
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Divisive royal portraits and a $6.2-million banana: 2024’s biggest art controversies
Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients for a juicy controversy. This may be why eye-rolling and schadenfreude emerge so virulently whenever said ...
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FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships 2024: All you need to know
Hot on the heels of the FIDE World Championship that saw Dommaraju Gukesh crowned (classical) chess champion of the world comes FIDE's World Championship for the two faster versions of the sport ...
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Chess champion Magnus Carlsen leads gambit to capture ancient game
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Magnus Carlsen has a vision to transform the ancient game of chess. The grandmaster, a contender to be the ...
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The Obama Era Is Finally History in the Middle East
Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Allysia Finley and Dan Henninger. Photo: Jimin Kim/Dave Decker/Zuma Press The consequences of Bashar al-Assad’s fall from ...